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(No Model.)

A. RUGALLY.

VELOUIPEDE.

No. 321,642. Patented July 7, 1885.

WITNESSES INVENTOR ATTORNEYS.

Unrrnn S'ra'rns PATENT @rrrcn ADAM RUGALLY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

VELOCIPEDE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 321,62, dated July 7, 1885.

Application filed April 8, 1885. (X0 model.)

T 0 ct when it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADAM RUGALLY, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Velocipede, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved veloeipede or road-wagon to be operated by foot-power.

lhe invention consists in the combination, with a frame, of a driving-shaftand wheels on the same, combined ratchet-wheels and piuions on the shaft-disks mounted rigidly on the shaft, and having pins engaging with the ratchet wheels, rocking levers having curved racks engaging with the pinions, and of springs for pulling the rear ends of the levers upward.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure l is a plan view of my improved veloeipede. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of the same on the line or :r, Fig. 1.

In the vehicle-frame A a shaft, B, is journaled, and on the ends of the same the driving-wheels O are rigidly mounted.

On the shaft B two hubs, D, are rigidly mounted, and provided with disks E, having central circular recesses, F, in which ratchetwheels G are located, which are mounted loosely on the shaft 13, and are made integral with pinious H, projecting from the disks E, and engaging with segment-racks J, formed on the front ends of levers K, mounted to rock on a transverse shaft, L, in the frame A, and a short distance behind the drivingsha'ft B.

The rear ends of the levers K are connected by powerful spiral springs L with the under side of the seat M,secured transversely on the top of the frame A.

Foot plates N are secured on the upper edges of the levers K in front of the seat.

The steeringwheels 0 are pivoted in a forked piece, I, formed on the lower end of a vertical shaft, Q, j ournaled in the rear crosspiece of the frame A, and provided at its upper end piece with a cross-piece, It, to the ends of which rods S are secured, which project to the front at the sides of the seat.

In radial apertures I in the disks E pins 'I are held loosely, and their inner ends are beveled to engage with the teeth of the ratchetwheels G. Springs U are interposed between the outer ends of the pins T and a band, W, surrounding the disk E, and press the beveled ends of the pins against theteeth of theratehet-wheel.

The operation is as follows: By pressing down the rear ends of the levers K, the segmental racks J revolve the pinions H and ratchet-wheels G in the direction of the arrow a, Fig. 2, and as the teeth of the ratchetwheels G engage with the pins T the disks E on the shaft, and with them the said shaft and the driving-wheels C, are revolved in the di rection of the arrow a, and the vehicle moves forward. when the pressureis removed from either lever, the rear end of the leveris pulled upward by a spring, L, and the corresponding pinion, H, and ratchet-wheel Gare moved in the inverse direction of the arrow to, but do not revolve the ratchet-wheel G, which slides past the pins T, which are pushed back by the teeth of the ratchet-wheel.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a velocipede, the combination, substantially as herein described and shown, of the driveaxle B, the lever Ii, having a segmental rack, the pinion H, geared by said rack and having the ratchet-wheels G fixed rigidly to and located to one side of the pinion, said pinion and ratchet being sleeved loosely on the drive axle, a disk, E, fixed on the axle along side of the ratchet and having its side adjacent said ratchet reccssed to receive the same. and having the lateral annular flange formed by said recess projected and fitting over and incasing the said ratchet, and having radial recess I, opening at their inner ends onto the said ratchet, and the springnctuated pan-ls T,held in said recesses and adapted to engage the ratchet, substantially as set forth.

ADAM RUGALLY.

Witnesses:

SIMsoN Worn, JOHN J. COLLINS. 

